Comment on America Has Become a Digital Narco-State - Paul Krugman
Suoko@feddit.it 4 days ago
I’m not sure heroine is the right sample, I know digital products cause addiction like heroine, maybe cocaine would be more realistic when talking about possible increase in GDP, with all that heroin around the US population would be wiped out in a couple of gen
FauxLiving@lemmy.world 3 days ago
It’s an analogy, the article is about digital privacy not drugs.
It doesn’t matter what substance he uses as an analogy because he’s talking about the dangers of pushing a dangerous product at industrial scale.
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
It actually mattes what shitty “analogy” he uses, because he’s implicitly endorsing prohibition and related violence that’s ongoing and extreme. It’s a typical lib tactic of normalizing state violence.
Suoko@feddit.it 3 days ago
Well, didn’t I say it was just the wrong analogy?